Sixth Amendment

noun

1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing the right to a trial by jury in criminal cases.

Example Sentences

The bedrock promise of the Sixth Amendment is a public trial by an impartial jury of our peers in “the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.”

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Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment demands a jury drawn from a representative cross section of the community.

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By seeking to categorically exclude those who most embody the community’s shared skepticism, prosecutors are further hollowing the Framers’ vision of the Sixth Amendment.

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It is hard to imagine any clearer violation of the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury.

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In doing so, Sotomayor contended, it ignored both its own precedents and the clear violation of Crawford’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

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